THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
209-David Bowie-Young Americans.
1975-Number 18 single.
Best Bit-At 4.15.Bowie reminds us of the price President Nixon paid for his misdemeanours.When performing the song live in future years he would change the name to the then current President.
By 1975 Bowie(see also best songs 807-440-334 and 302) was ready to explore new ventures and it was Soul Music which was to become his new passion.Although he was already a big success in America they didn’t fully take to ‘Glam Rock,’ and it was the release of the Young Americans Album which took his career to the next level across the Atlantic,with ‘Fame’ giving him his first Billboard Number 1.
Young Americans is the tale of a teenage couple trying to cope with life in America,striving to achieve ‘The American Dream’ but finding out it is impossible as they come to terms with real life and realising that there will be no Hollywood style fairytale ending.
‘We live for just these twenty years,do we have to die for the fifty more.’
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